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From: annekem@tekfdi.UUCP (Anneke Moore)
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Immune deficiency in dogs
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Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 12:08:42 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  2 12:08:42 1985
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Does anyone on the net have experience with immune deficiency in dogs, or
can anyone in the Portland, OR, area recommend a vet that is interested in
nutrition.

My 3-year old German Shepherd (Rosie) has been diagnosed as having an
impaired immune system. She has had seborrhea probably since birth (she 
came to us as a stray), and now has another skin infection that she can't
get rid of. The vet has put her on a cortizone medication, which only
suppresses the symptoms.

I would like to build Rosie's immune system, preferably nutritionally,
so she will be able to fight whatever flies by. I have asked the vet whether
there may be wrong with her digestion, but he said that digestion is
something they only look at at the last resort. I tend to think that health
and nutrition as closely linked.

Rose eats anything in sight (result of having been a stray?), but is on
a diet of dry dogfood (Wayne's), brown rice, cottage cheese and meat broth.
She does not digest boiled meat well (gives her the runs), and I'm not sure
that she does get the benefit of the stuff I give her.

She is a very lively, active, beautiful dog with a great disposition. 
I would love to seen her healthy.


Anneke Moore
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